LIFT .....................

One thing that fascinated me when I was young was the lift. I still remember those five storied textile shops, only place where the elevators were common. We used to visit these shops very rarely, say once or twice in a year. The place will be usually crowded since it would be some festive season and half of Chennai’s population will be in that area frog hopping from shop to shop just to have a look at new designs and to buy nothing. That experience would make a new post by itself, so coming back to topic people would be standing blocking the whole entrance of the lift. No, don’t expect any queues to be formed. It would take anywhere between 10 to 15 minutes for the doors of heaven to open. People would be literally banging on the door till then. My parents would like to continue their shopping and will try to persuade me into going up through the stairs but never I would oblige. They will even go to the extreme of offering me a extra shirt rather than waiting there for the lift but never…….. I would go through stairs.
At last the lift would door open and people already inside the lift will not be able to come out as the way is fully blocked outside but after all pulling and pushing, those luck few try to squeeze into the lift and that experience would be totally different. When I was in the lift for the first time it was like a dream come true for me. I had a slight fear and felt a small thingy rolling just above my stomach. But it was ok …….
In the next few seconds, at least I felt so, the lift conductor pushed you out of the lift and that’s the end. The conductor of the lift would not allow small boys alone since he knows that we will be playing by going again and again in the lift. I still remember me going and pulling my parents to come with me in the lift, just for fun, so that the conductor wouldn’t shout at me.
All these happening are still fresh in my mind even when I read about NASA planning a lift for the international space station. Yes you read it right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NASA is planning a lift like structure from earth to the international space station using Nano-carbon tubes. The idea was proposed as early as 2001 and research to make it possible is being carried out vigorously.
How happy/fun/joy/great it would for me to go on a lift outside the earth. May be there would be some cute/nice/little girl like sunitha (but not sunitha), who will be dreaming of special Indian(ohhh!!no!! not Indian) recipes. Keep watching this space I will surely say how earth, India and everything else looked like from space.